The Mozilla Foundation, the folks behind Firefox and Thunderbird, have announced the Mozilla Corporation, a for-profit corporate subsidiary wholley owned by the 501-c-3 nonprofit Mozilla Foundation. http://www.mozilla.org/reorganization/
This precisely mirrors the structure we have choosen to support CiviCRM and OpenNGO. The Social Source Foundation, a 501-c-3 nonprofit, shepards the open source software along, creates code, builds community and generally tries to create a healthy ecosystem. We also have a wholly-owned for profit... Read more

CiviCRM 1.0 Beta has been released in Polish and English. We have a bunch of other translations that have been started on our translation server.
Current translations in progress include:
Spanish (Español)
Thai ( ไทย),
Khmer
Brasilian Portuguese (Português)
Polish took about 24 person-hours to do the translation, so we expect each language would require a similar level of effort.
Khmer and Thai are particularly exciting since they demonstrate that we can support non-roman alphabets. The next step is to support non-left-to-right languages like Arabic and Japanese.
Special thanks to... Read more

Here:
Jeff Patrick riffs on CiviCRM
Jeff does a great job of putting CiviCRM in a larger context. We welcome the expectations he sets up for the CiviCRM community and hope the enough people use, extend, understand and join CiviCRM to far exceed the wildest expectations.

Functional and contact-level access control is now implemented on the sandbox.
User access overview describes the permissioning options.
Logins and User Roles
Some 'example roles' have been setup on this sandbox. You can use the logins below to try them out:
Role: CiviCRM Admin
Login: crmadmin demo
Role: Team Lead
Login: teamlead demo
Role: Volunteer
login: volunteer demo
Current Sandbox Access Control
This is a snapshot of the current access control setup for the sandbox. Notice that for each 'Group'... Read more

CiviCRM has a lot of details under the covers that people might miss. One such feature is a simple Google Maps integration. From the contact list, select one or more contacts. From the drop down actions menu, select "Map Contacts using Google Maps" and click the go button.